A growing shortfall exists between the number of older individuals who require healthcare
support and the number of qualified healthcare professionals who can provide this. Robots …

There are numerous popular misconceptions about sign languages. One of these
misconceptions has it that sign languages are “languages on the hands”, that is, that sign …

The purpose of this article is to review research dealing with the use of ASL in teaching
English and literacy. I review some of the literature (and direct readers to additional sources) …

One of the major issues that has intrigued linguists is the question of what effect themodality
of perception/production has on the grammar of a language. If the grammar isviewed as …

The study of signed languages provides an opportunity to identify those characteristics of
language that are universal and to investigate the effect of production modality (signed vs …

Previous approaches to explaining brow raise behavior in American Sign Language (ASL)
have claimed that it performs a semantic or pragmatic function, such as indicating that …

. Introduction. How do children learn a sign language?. e path of sign language
development.. e pre-linguistic stage.. e one-and two-word stages.. e differentiation stage …

Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands Page 1
Sign Language & Linguistics 18:1 (2015), 142–150. doi 10.1075/sll.18.1.06kim issn 1387–9316 …

Phonetic reduction arises in the course of typical language production, when language
users produce a less clearly articulated form of a word. An important factor that affects …

This paper reports a study of the forms and functions of head movements produced in the
dimension of depth in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Specifically, the paper describes and …